Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Works of James Watkins
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ceramicist James Watkins throws elegant miniature cups, saucers and bowls, and double-walled cauldrons and jars, some of which are close to three feet high. He comes to his art with great sensitivity of touch that gives his works immense lyrical beauty.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy, and Emerging: Recent Works by Lacey Mckinney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

The Urban Transformation of Medellin, Architecture and Politics
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellin, and Alejandro Echeverri, chief architect of special urban projects

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Sound Landscapes
Civic Morning Musicals
Syracuse University Oratorio Society

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse University Oratorio Society, Elisa Macedo Dekaney, conductor; Susan Crocker, piano; other instrumentalists. The program includes music by Franz Biebl, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Vivaldi, and Home on the Range, arr. Mark Hayes.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Works of James Watkins
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

There will be artist receptions at 11:00 am and 5:00 pm as part of Th3.

Ceramicist James Watkins throws elegant miniature cups, saucers and bowls, and double-walled cauldrons and jars, some of which are close to three feet high. He comes to his art with great sensitivity of touch that gives his works immense lyrical beauty.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy, and Emerging: Recent Works by Lacey Mckinney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

There will be an origami and sumi brush painting demonstration from 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3.

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

A reception will be held from 5:00-6:30 pm, as part of Th3.

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Hope in a Time of Turmoil: Colombia and the Art of Jafeth Gómez Ledesma
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist, activist, dreamer and teacher -- Jafeth Gómez Ledesma will exhibit his vision of Colombia at the ArtRage Gallery as part of a visit to the United States to speak, conduct workshops and celebrate art and hope.

Works of Ron McGregor
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of ceramics, featuring the large, organic, and whimsical hand-built bowls of Ron McGregor from Dexter, NY. Artist Reception.

Trunk Show of Wearable Art
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Barbara Jean Weingart, just returned from Seattle, presents a Trunk Show of wearable art, including hand painted, dyed and embellished scarves, wraps and accessories of silk, wool and cotton. Refreshments.

Art from Elmwood Elementary
Museum of Young Art

Price: Free
Museum of Young Art
110 W. Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, Syracuse

Exhibit of children's artwork from Elmwood Elementary School (grades K-4) in Syracuse. Opening reception.

The Art of Giants Puppets
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Love & Patience
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A special Th3 event, "Flight 305 to Montgomery, courtesy of Orange Line Airways", will kick off the show. Complimentary snacks and tasty beverages shall be provided. Orange Line Gallery will transform into Orange Line Airways. A ticketing area, lounge and airplane seating will be staged for a unique experience and DJ Sik60Six will spin a variety of vinyl to accompany a light show highlighting the artwork. This is the third in their series of sight and sound experiments, this time adding performance to the mix.

Join the magical journey and celebrate new OL artwork by artists Buddy Belonsoff, photography; Marc Pittarelli, pastel; Michael Weismore, oil on canvas; Sean Flaherty, oil on canvas; DJ Sik60Six, audio and visual.

The exhibit is a mix of traditional to abstract works, but remaining modern throughout. The show title refers not only to the content of the pieces, but also the artist's connection to their work and process. New work will be featured by previous OL artists including Alejandro Bettencourt, Amber Blanding, David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Jace Collins, Jacqueline Adamo, Laura Celuch, Melissa Tiffany and Spencer Baker.

Land vs. Sea: Animals in the Consciousness of America
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring work by Corey Arnold, Christopher Gianunzio, Aaron Hraba, Jessica Lance, Jane Mount and Jason Polan, Holly Pitre, Amy Stein; curated by Colin Todd.

Artist Talk: Michael Barletta
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The artist of "In Pieces," an installation in the Window Projects Gallery, will give an informal talk
during which the audience is encouraged to participate in the evolution of his design.

Film Series: Seoul Train
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Seoul Train is a gripping documentary that exposes the plight of North Koreans trying to escape their homeland and China. Riveting visuals of a secretive "underground railroad" highlight an in-depth exploration of the complex geopolitics behind this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis. Vérité footage, personal stories and interviews with experts and government officials combine to depict the flouting of international laws by major countries, the inaction and bureaucracy of the United Nations, and the heroics of activists that put themselves in harms way to save the refugees.

Free parking is available in Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall and Storer Auditorium.

Beautiful Me(s)
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Community Folk Art Center and The Casita Cultural Center Project will be celebrating African Latino American history and culture as part of Th3. There will be a special performance by Afro-Cuban percussionist Hiram Jiminez at 6:30 pm, followed by a screening of the documentary Beautiful Me(s) by director Robin J. Hayes at 7:00 pm and a panel discussion with special guests Jose Miguel Hernandez and Hiram Jiminez at 7:30 pm.

Beautiful Me(s) is the true story of unlikely Yale graduates calling themselves the Black Resistance Group, who embark on a journey to Cuba in search of solidarity and revolutionary roots. Using borrowed video cameras they document their interactions with Cuban artists, intellectuals, musicians and ordinary people. To the incredible mix of Afro-Cuban music in the streets of Havana, the students uncover the profound connection Cubans feel to Africa and African Americans, debunking much of the misrepresentation of Cuba propagated in American media. The students discover a cultural legacy rich with revolutionary change driven by the love and hope of the people. Cuba's deep sense of unity and equality encourages the students to renew their commitment in the resistance against racism.

Film Series: Seoul Train
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Seoul Train is a gripping documentary that exposes the plight of North Koreans trying to escape their homeland and China. Riveting visuals of a secretive "underground railroad" highlight an in-depth exploration of the complex geopolitics behind this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis. Vérité footage, personal stories and interviews with experts and government officials combine to depict the flouting of international laws by major countries, the inaction and bureaucracy of the United Nations, and the heroics of activists that put themselves in harms way to save the refugees.

Free parking is available in Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall and Storer Auditorium.

We, the unsigned: Dispatches from the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation, and William Menking, The Architect's Newspaper

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Napoleon's 'Discovery' of Egypt: Art & Science in the French Empire and the Civilizing Mission
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Amy Aisen Elouafi

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Amy Aisen Elouafi, Assistant Professor of History, and Women and Gender Studies, Middle East Studies Program, will discuss Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in the context of French colonialism looking primarily at academic and artistic representations of the East, that demonstrate a set of stereotypes collectively referred to as Orientalism. Though aware of Egypt's Pharaonic past, and intrigued by it, these savants were scarcely interested in the contemporary history, culture, and politics of Egypt. Instead of a project of translation, Europeans sought to make the Orient intelligible to a European audience through cataloging, measuring, quantifying - and illustrating - what in their eyes constituted knowledge.

This lecture, a Th3 special event, is given in conjunction with the gallery's new exhibition, Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt

The Artist as Research Trickster
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Graeme Sullivan

Price: Free
Lender Auditorium, Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University, Syracuse

As professor of art education at Columbia University Teachers College, Graeme Sullivan's scholarly interest involves an ongoing investigation of critical-reflexive thinking processes and methods of inquiry used in the visual arts. His research involves inquiries into the intellectual and imaginative practices of artists and the way the arts are mediated as a means of learning by cultural commentators, teachers and students. These ideas and approaches are described in his book "Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts" (Sage, 2005), which argues that art practice can be a form of research.

An influential interdisciplinary thinker, teacher and artist, Sullivan has published widely in the field of art education, and in 1990 was awarded the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for his scholarly writing by the National Art Education Association. He is also author of "Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters" (Piper Press, 1994). He has fulfilled many professional roles and is the former senior editor of Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the NAEA. He maintains an active art practice, and his "Streetworks" have been installed in several international cities and sites over the past 15 years.

Gallery Talk
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Everson Biennial winner Anne Cofer

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join 2008 Everson Biennial winner Anne Cofer for an engaging gallery talk, which will explore the concept, process and materials used in the making of the experimental mixed media/ceramic work in her exhibition, "Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects."

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Inactive comedy murder mystery dinner theater. Up in the hills, a lonely goatherd has died, and the townsfolk, including Capt. Von Trumpp, begin to suspect that sweet young Maria is a serial killer.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Friday, February 20, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Works of James Watkins
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ceramicist James Watkins throws elegant miniature cups, saucers and bowls, and double-walled cauldrons and jars, some of which are close to three feet high. He comes to his art with great sensitivity of touch that gives his works immense lyrical beauty.

Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy, and Emerging: Recent Works by Lacey Mckinney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

The Nature of Being
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works based on nature and the figure by John Fitzsimmons (oil paintings) and Patrice Fitzsimmons (ceramic sculpture).

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Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Hope in a Time of Turmoil: Colombia and the Art of Jafeth Gómez Ledesma
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist, activist, dreamer and teacher -- Jafeth Gómez Ledesma will exhibit his vision of Colombia at the ArtRage Gallery as part of a visit to the United States to speak, conduct workshops and celebrate art and hope.

Love & Patience
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit is a mix of traditional to abstract works, but remaining modern throughout. The show title refers not only to the content of the pieces, but also the artist's connection to their work and process. New work will be featured by previous OL artists including Alejandro Bettencourt, Amber Blanding, David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Jace Collins, Jacqueline Adamo, Laura Celuch, Melissa Tiffany and Spencer Baker.

Festival Prescreening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Curtin Auditorium, Onondaga County Public Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Selected shorts from past festivals

FridayFLICS: Sounder
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Moving, powerful story of the Life and hard times of a loving, strong family of black sharecroppers in Depression-era Louisiana. With Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson. Oscars: Best Actor, Actress, Picture, Writing, Screenplay based on another Medium. (Directed by Martin Ritt. 1972.)

Dana "Short Order" Cooke
Folkus Project

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Songwriter Dana "Short Order" Cooke puts the fun back in irony, portraying a world in which everything is a little absurd. In fact, it's the basis of his whole world view. His off-beat songs are about the important things in your life, such as three-legged dogs, kids who puke on midway rides, and the fact that you're going bald. These quirky tunes, delivered in a relaxed and unassuming manner, display Cooke's trademark sense of humor about himself and his music. But the humor is just a starting point. With his over-developed sense of the absurd and contradictory, he gets at things that are real. Cooke will be accompanied by His Band Joe, lending a percolating Americana edge to the music. Joe Cleveland augments the material with additional vocals, guitar, and banjo, while tossing in one or two of his own original songs. Bringing up the bottom will be veteran Central New York bass player John Dancks.

Society Sounds III
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring performances of commissioned works by Marc Mellits, Sally Lamb, and Nicolas Scherzinger.

Tribute to Abba: Arrival from Sweden
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Travis Newton, conductor

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Enjoy your favorite ABBA hits "Dancing Queen" and "Money Money Money" performed with more glow than you ever experienced in real life!

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Poets Judith Harris and Sarah Freligh
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Judith Harris is the author of two books of poems from LSU Press: Atonement (2000) and The Bad Secret (2003), as well as a critical book on poetry and psychoanalysis entitled Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing (SUNY Press, 2003). She teaches at George Mason University.

Sarah Freligh is a current NEA fellow in poetry, and the author of a chapbook of poems, Bonus Baby, and a full-length collection of poems, Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). A former sportswriter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sarah is currently an adjunct professor of creative writing at St. John Fisher College.

Where's My Money
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Written by John Patrick Shanley; directed by David Julian Melendez.

Our Town
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town explores the traditional American values of religion, community, family and the simple pleasures of life. It is an attempt to find value above all price for even the smallest events in our daily life.

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Carrie the Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This is a concert version of the musical which is based on the book Carrie which was made into the famous movie of the same name.

Improv Comedy Night
Saltine Warrior

Price: $13 regular, $10 students/seniors (cash only)
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?"), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen's Brigade.

This is truly interactive, improv comedy at its best! The entire performance is totally unscripted and unrehearsed...with scenes and games based on audience suggestions and participation.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

The Nature of Being
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works based on nature and the figure by John Fitzsimmons (oil paintings) and Patrice Fitzsimmons (ceramic sculpture).

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Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be a gallery talk at 2:00 pm with the artist, Khalil AbdulKhabir.

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Hope in a Time of Turmoil: Colombia and the Art of Jafeth Gómez Ledesma
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Opening Reception will be held 7:00-9:00 pm.

Artist, activist, dreamer and teacher -- Jafeth Gómez Ledesma will exhibit his vision of Colombia at the ArtRage Gallery as part of a visit to the United States to speak, conduct workshops and celebrate art and hope.

Love & Patience
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit is a mix of traditional to abstract works, but remaining modern throughout. The show title refers not only to the content of the pieces, but also the artist's connection to their work and process. New work will be featured by previous OL artists including Alejandro Bettencourt, Amber Blanding, David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Jace Collins, Jacqueline Adamo, Laura Celuch, Melissa Tiffany and Spencer Baker.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Artist Talk
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Khalil Abdulkhabir

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Artist Talk with photographer Khalil Abdulkhabi, in conjunction with the exhibit Selections From the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photographic Collection, which features photographs documenting the Dar-ul-Islam movement in Brooklyn in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Junior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Michael Kuhn

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Michael Kuhn, a junior music industry major, will perform a recital of works by Schubert, Faure, Margaret Bonds, and various works of musical theater. The concert will also feature soprano Gabriel Traub. Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Ossia

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ossia, the Eastman School of Music's student-run new music ensemble, will present a concert of works by Eastman faculty composers.

The concert will feature work by David Liptak, Robert Morris, Allan Schindler, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.

David Liptak Starpoints for solo violin and The Trees Have Spirits for solo double bass
Robert Morris Roundelay for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello
Allan Schindler Take Me Places
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Flores del Viento, a setting of poems for baritone, cello, and piano inspired by the myth of Quetzalcóatl, a powerful pre-Hispanic god and a historical figure in Toltec culture
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Trio-Variations for flute, clarinet and piano

Junior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Carrie Wachsberger

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Carrie Wachsberger, a junior music performance major at the Setnor School, will perform a recital of works by Handel, Faure, Gounod, R. Strauss, Seiber, and Britten. The concert will also feature Trevor Roche on clarinet and Nathan Sumrall on piano. Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Where's My Money
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Written by John Patrick Shanley; directed by David Julian Melendez.

Our Town
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town explores the traditional American values of religion, community, family and the simple pleasures of life. It is an attempt to find value above all price for even the smallest events in our daily life.

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Carrie the Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This is a concert version of the musical which is based on the book Carrie which was made into the famous movie of the same name.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

How to Kill Someone in Five Easy Steps: Secrets of a Mystery Writer
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Barbara Block aka Isis Crawford

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Isis Crawford was born in Egypt to parents who were in the diplomatic corps. When she was five, her family returned to the States, where her mother opened a restaurant in upper Westchester County and her father became a university professor. Since then, Isis has combined her parents' love of food and travel by running a catering service as well as penning numerous travel-related articles about places ranging from Omsk to Paraguay. Married, with twin boys, she presently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Barbara Block, however, lives in our neighborhood.

Barbara Block has been writing mystery stories since the early 1990s. Many feature Syracuse based amateur detective and pet store owner, Robin Light. Since 1993 she has written under the name of Isis Crawford, writing stories featuring two catering sisters, Bernie and Libby Simmons, who solve the mystery of murders that occur at events they cater. Barbara Block wrote "The Beer Diet" and has written many articles on food based subjects for newspapers in Syracuse where she has lived for 30 years. She was born in Manhattan. She is a partner in Augie's Pizza Shop in Marshall Street.

Djug Django
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

This Ithaca-based band performs classic Gypsy swing compositions by the late Django Reinhardt plus original tunes by Dave Davies and the best of the blues age. The combo features violinist Eric Aceto, clarinetist Brian Earle, guitarists Doug Robinson and Harry Aceto, washtub bassist Jim Sherpa and trombonist Dave Davies. They play songs such as the traditional "La Villa Rosa," the standard "Besame Mucho" and the Django tunes like "Sweet Chorus" and "Daphne."

Junior Percussion Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Brian Ludwig

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Brian Ludwig, a junior music industry major at the Setnor School, will perform a recital of selections by Fissinger, Milhaud, Basta, and Xenakis. The concert will feature a 17-piece chamber orchestra of Setnor students with Charlie Magnone on keyboard. Parking is available in SU pay lots. For parking information, call 315-443-2191.

Jazz Cabaret
LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: $10 regular, $5 seniors, $3 students
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

LeMoyne's annual African-American History Month event features CNY's finest song stylist, Ronnie Leigh.

Junior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kelly Backus

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kelly Backus, a junior music education major, will perform a recital of works by Schubert, G.F. Handel, W.A. Mozart, Ben Moore, and Ernest Charles. The concert will also feature pianist Jacob Hahn. Parking is available in SU pay lots. For parking information, call 315-443-2191.

A Broadway Evening
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Jonathan Shew

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jonathan Shew, a senior music industry major, will present a voice recital featuring a diverse repertoire of songs from West Side Story, Children of Eden, and many others. The program will feature Michael Debach on keyboard. At the conclusion of the concert, Shew will collect donations for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Parking is available in SU pay lots. For parking information, call 315-443-2191.

The High Cost of Heating
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

What happens when your heating bill arrives and it grows and grows becoming a monster in your living room as it takes over your entire life? The High Cost of Heating, a full-length absurd comedy that is both terrifying and hysterical, explores the plight of a middle-class, middle-aged couple who face the ultimate crisis, their American dream turning into a nightmare.

Where's My Money
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Written by John Patrick Shanley; directed by David Julian Melendez.

Carrie the Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This is a concert version of the musical which is based on the book Carrie which was made into the famous movie of the same name.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Festival Prescreening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Sugarpearl Cafe
600 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Feature film "Little Girl Blue"

Matrilineage Symposium: Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Nancy Cohen

Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Nancy Cohen is a mixed media artist working in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Through the use of materials and found objects, her work balances fragility and embodiment while evoking domestic objects and nature. The artist states that "My sculpture has always been intended to engage viewers physically--to produce a visceral sensation of bodies interacting and to draw one, emotionally at least, into participation in that interaction."

Nancy Cohen received her MFA from Columbia University in 1984. She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Her work has been exhibited at the Noyes Museum of Art, NJ, The Jersey City Museum, and the Heidi Cho Gallery, NY, and can be found in many public and private collections. She has also received numerous commissions for public art projects.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy, and Emerging: Recent Works by Lacey Mckinney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

The Nature of Being
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works based on nature and the figure by John Fitzsimmons (oil paintings) and Patrice Fitzsimmons (ceramic sculpture).

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Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This month's Spark Video features all local artists exploring family and relationships.

Domestic situations have changed with communication technology, resulting in mediated love and intimacy forcing families to stay in touch ways never imagined before.

Christina Wu's "Family Portrait" is a touching piece on one family's experience of intimacy and togetherness in the cyber age.

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby's "Attention Public", Aaron Hraba's "Mary Lee", Holly Rodricks' "Partition" and Nathaniel Sullivan's "Win, Place, Show" are also featured.

Kim Osorio, hip-hop journalist and author

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kim Osorio was the first female editor-in-chief of The Source magazine, which covers hip-hop music, culture and politics. She led the publication during some of its highest-selling issues, but later sued for sexual harassment and received a reported $15.5 million settlement. She is the author of Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible (VH1, 2008), in which she gives a behind-the-scenes look at her years at The Source.

Osorio is currently an editor-at-large for BET.com and a frequent on-air contributor to BET News. She was formerly the vice president of content for Global Grind, a leading hip-hop media company.

For more information, contact Shelly Griffin at 315-443-4004 or migriffi@syr.edu.

Matrilineage Symposium: Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Laurel Nakadate

Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Laurel Nakadate is a photographer, video artist, and filmmaker. She blurs documentary and fiction through her portrayal of situations that combine sexuality, loneliness, power, and discomfort with play. Nakadate will be an artist in residence from February 23-March 4.

Laurel Nakadate was raised in Ames, Iowa and now lives and works out of both New York and Los Angeles. A 2001 graduate of Yale's MFA photography program, she began her career as a documentary photographer, which eventually led to making documentary-style videos featuring the artist paired with men who she persuaded to "perform" with her in front of the camera. Nakadate's first video installation for which she is probably best known, "[ Wanna Be Your Midlife Crisis," was exhibited by Daniel Silverstein Gallery in the 2002 Armory Show. Since this debut, Nakadate has continued to perform for the camera in work for her two solo shows presented by Danziger Projects in New York: 2005's 'Love Hotel and Other Stories,' 2006's 'A Message To Pretty" and 2007's 'Laurel Nakadate' presented by Chalk Horse Gallery in Sydney, Australia. Nakadate has exhibited at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, MOM,AJPS1 's Greater New York Show, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Kunsrfilm Biennial in Cologne, the Berlin Biennial, New York's Asia Society and at Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Her first feature film, "Stay the Same Never Change," was screened at the 2009 Sundance Festival.

Friends of the Central Library Author Series
Featuring Sarah Vowell

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Works of Milton Glaser
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man -- one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work.

Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy, and Emerging: Recent Works by Lacey Mckinney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Arena Art Group Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Fun, wild, and experimental artwork by Rochester's Arena Art Group.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

The Nature of Being
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works based on nature and the figure by John Fitzsimmons (oil paintings) and Patrice Fitzsimmons (ceramic sculpture).

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Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Observations East and West: Artists' Views of the Historic Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature student work from professor Sarah McCoubrey's fall 2008 landscape painting class and will be matted, framed and installed by students in the Museum Studies program. The subject of the works is an exploration of the changing environment as impacted by the Erie Canal. To accomplish this, the class met weekly at a variety of locations along the Erie Canal including the more rural areas, through the suburbs, into the city, and at the Erie Canal Museum.

The choice of these sites represents more than 200 years of transition in the surrounding Syracuse community and illustrates the change in the living environment as the community evolved from a casual based transportation center into a major modern metropolitan city.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

A Local Black History Exhibit
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit presented by The Black History Preservationist Project, The Dunbar Association, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Syracuse University South Side Initiative, A Community-University Partnership Project, and Umi & Associates Inc.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Thinkin' 'bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday! Some very intriguing items belonging to our former President are on display.

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition brings together more than 80 engravings, vivid Orientalist paintings, decorative objects, and documents and letters made during General Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign of 1791-1801. While unsuccessful as a military campaign, the endeavor was extremely successful and a cultural expedition. Napoleon brought over 150 scholars with him and their investigations into the country's ancient and contemporary societies formed the foundation of modern Egyptology and were a major achievement. From the Dahesh Museum of Art.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Hope in a Time of Turmoil: Colombia and the Art of Jafeth Gómez Ledesma
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Artist, activist, dreamer and teacher -- Jafeth Gómez Ledesma will exhibit his vision of Colombia at the ArtRage Gallery as part of a visit to the United States to speak, conduct workshops and celebrate art and hope.

Matrilineage Symposium: Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Christiane Paul

Shaffer Art Building, Room 121
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Christine Paul is theorist, writer, and curator. Her writing and curation explore new media, net art, information architecture, hyperfiction, and the context and meaning of digital art.

Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. Her extensive writings have been published in magazines such as Sculpture, Leonardo, and Intelligent Agent. She is the author of New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art (University of California Press, 2008) Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003), which surveys the field of new media art; and of Unreal City: A Hypertextual Guide to T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (Eastgate Systems, 1995).

Paul teaches in the MFA computer graphics department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the show Data Dynamics (2001), the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, as well as the online exhibition CODeDOC (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum's online portal to Internet art, for which she is responsible. Other curatorial work includes The Passage of Mirage (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004); Evident Traces (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, 2004); eVolutionthe art of living systems (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004); CODeDOC II (Ars Electronica, 2003); the New York Digital Salon's 10th anniversary exhibition (NYC, 2003); Mapping Transitions at the University of Boulder, Colorado (2002); Re-Media (Fotofest, Houston, Texas, 2002); and a net art selection for Evo1 (Gallery L, Moscow, October 2001).

Civic Morning Musicals
Andrew Zaplatynsky, violin; Kevin Moore, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Excerpts from their complete Beethoven sonata cycle.

Poet and memoirist Sarah Manguso
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sarah Manguso is author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (Farrar, Straus, & Goroux, 2008), named "Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle and an "Editor's Choice" by The New York Times. Manguso's stories and poetry have drawn praise from outlets worldwide, including The Village Voice, American Book Review, Elle magazine and Readings (Australia), which awarded her story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney's Books, 2007) its "Book of the Year" honor. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

The reading will be preceded by a Q&A session with the author beginning at 3:45 pm.

Parking is available in SU pay lots. For more information, phone 315-443-2174.

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Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Once upon a time Walter Griffin attached 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and soared 16,000 feet into the wild blue yonder. Mission accomplished. Dream fulfilled. What could he see of his life in such rarefied air? What was left of the vision when he touched down on the ground? Bridget Carpenter is a young American playwright on the rise, and in this contemporary parable, based on the true story of Walter Griffin, she dares us to consider what it is in the human spirit that makes us want to soar beyond the realm of reason. Why are we fascinated with the seemingly impossible? What makes daredevil aerialist Philippe Petit ascend the high wire? And why does he make frequent appearances in this clever and altogether amusing and intriguing play? Come down from the wire and we might have to find a job, or support a wife, or take care of a son, or ... find a new dream.

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